Are we slaves to our karma, or are we free?
How much of life is destiny and how much free will? How much nature and how much nurture? These questions haunt everyone, including Vedic astrologers.
We are not slaves to our karma, but neither are we completely free.
The term “personal myth” was coined by psychotherapist Ernst Kris in 1956 to describe beliefs, feelings, images, values, and memories functioning outside of our conscious awareness, directing our life. The Vedic seers discovered the significance of the personal myth thousands of years earlier, calling it samskara— sams (cumulative) and kara (action) as our cumulative and inherited physical, mental, and spiritual conditioning. They emphasized that no one gets to walk out on their personal myth—not even the gods when they incarnate on Earth. As such, the obstacles, twists, and turns created by our inner narrative become the greater forces at work guiding our spiritual evolution.
Samskara and Karma can be unraveled and altered through acknowledgment of our “personal myth”, and sincere commitment to developing the higher consciousness of the Planets, Signs, and Houses. However, sometimes it is more freeing to let our karma run its course and adapt to it rather than transform it.
What all Vedic astrologers know is that we cannot alter the timing of the karmic seasons or dasha cycles; just as we cannot change winter to spring, we cannot change Saturn dasha into Jupiter or Jupiter into Rahu.
I am already a meditator, spiritual seeker, and Yogi. Why do I need Vedic Astrology?
Classical Yoga contains vast knowledge of human psychology and puts a great deal of emphasis on mental and spiritual health counseling. All the yogic methodologies of self-transformation like asana, mantra, yantra, meditation, and Ayurveda were created to generate new samskara and free ourselves from the burden of our karma. However, more often than not, the same samskara, or memories and confirmation bias that send us in search of self-transformation and healing, continue to guide our path. Vedic astrology can be that neutral guide, mentor, and diagnostic tool, that reveals our hidden agendas, biases, trauma, and prejudices that keep us entangled in old memories, even as we try to free ourselves from them.
Your horoscope also contains the road map for the potential timing and alignment of your spiritual goals with all the other goals of life (money, relationship, family, health, etc.).
What about manifesting our own destiny and unlocking abundance? Is the doom and gloom of Vedic Astrology necessary on the spiritual path?
Any healing methodology that offers magical cures with a “one size fits all” approach, risks getting you further trapped in the ego, which is the primary cause of our predicament in the first place.
Vedic Astrology does not offer instant cures or magical formulas. Instead, it reveals the knowledge of Veda (Truth) that will help you grow and prosper in every area of life. It will also help you to embrace the ups and downs of life and the cycles of growth and dormancy built into life’s karmic cycles.
I already have a spiritual teacher, teaching, and spiritual path that I follow.
Called Jyotish in Sanskrit, or the “eyes of Vedas, Vedic Astrology can serve as an additional guide and mentor to any spiritual teaching or practice. Revealing the hidden dimensions of your psyche, as well as the hidden planetary periods (dashas) of your life’s journey, can help speed up your spiritual evolution.
Can Integrative Vedic astrology help me with health concerns?
Medical Vedic astrology can reveal genetic and constitutional health issues, long-term health trends, as well as the timing of disease and healing. Integrating Vedic astrology, Ayurveda and Yoga offers an unparalleled mind-body-soul approach that is truly holistic.
Can Integrative Vedic Astrology help me with career concerns?
Vedic astrology can reveal your career potential, as well as the timing of when and how it will unfold. Vedic Astrology can also show your hidden talents, as well as what is holding you back from success.
Can Integrative Vedic Astrology help me with relationships?
Relationship problems, or lack of relationships, are the primary reason most people seek out a Vedic Astrologer. Like Asana, relationships are a type of yoga and require strength, flexibility, endurance, and knowledge. Vedic astrology’s unique approach to relationships and the compatibility techniques it utilizes can be a true mentor and guide to help us thrive in our relationships.
Vedic Astrology is too hard, there is too much to learn. I don't have the time.
It’s true Vedic Astrology is hard at first. You have to learn a new vocabulary and adopt a new paradigm of life to fully utilize and assimilate this knowledge. However, I am committed to demystifying Vedic astrology and making it as “user-friendly” as possible.
To start learning Integrative Vedic Astrology please refer to my new book, Before Your Future, my youtube channel, Instagram, as well as over 60 articles on this website. For those who want to dive deeper and start studying Vedic Astrology, check out my online courses.